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Red Hat (
RHT) pushed the Computer Software & Services industry lower today making it today's featured Computer Software & Services laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.9%. By the end of trading, Red Hat fell $0.55 (-1.2%) to $45.85 on average volume. Throughout the day, 3,216,894 shares of Red Hat exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 2,577,200 shares. The stock ranged in price between $45.08-$46.34 after having opened the day at $46.23 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $46.40. Other companies within the Computer Software & Services industry that declined today were:
Kingtone Wirelessinfo Solution (
KONE), down 15.1%,
Marketo (
MKTO), down 13.2%,
Velti (
VELT), down 7.7% and
Formula Systems (1985 (
FORTY), down 5.3%.

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Red Hat, Inc. provides open source software solutions primarily to enterprise customers worldwide. The company develops and offers operating system, middleware, virtualization, storage, and cloud technologies. Red Hat has a market cap of $8.8 billion and is part of the technology sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 60.1, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 12.4% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate Red Hat a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 9 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates
Red Hat as a
buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, growth in earnings per share, increase in net income and good cash flow from operations. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had lackluster performance in the stock itself.